gamut

Meaning

Noun

• A (normally) complete range.
• All the notes in the musical scale.
• All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

Origin

• 1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, from Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma + ut. In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.